Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-08-27

school training. When eminently fitted
home help is placed upon proper so
cial standing one ameiorating act in
the life Of working women will be
achieved and one grand step taken to-
ward supplying the demand Of kitchen
help.
GERMAN AGRICULTURE SCHOOL.
Germany makes a good showing in
the provisions made for the dissen1ina-
ton Of agricultural knowledge. a glance
at the following statistics will show
how thorough are the means of obtain
ing this knowledge. Prussia has four
higher agricultural colleges with some
eighty professorships; she has more than
forty lesser schools, all having model
farms; she has five special schools for
the cultivation of meadows and the
scientific studies of methods of irriga-
ton she has one special school for the
teaching of those who desire to reclaim
swamp land; she has two special schools
for the teaching of those who intend to
grow industrial nurseries, she has a
school for teaching horseshoeing, one
for teaching silk raising, one for the
raising of bees, and one teaching the
cultivation of fish. Besides all these she
has twenty special schools for the educa-
ton Of gardeners and fifteen schools for
the training OF those who are to culti-
yate the grape.
The example of Prussia has been
initiated by the other German states.
The little kingdom of Brayaria, scarce
" larger than Massachusetts,
has tWenty-six agricultural colleges
leges, besides more than 200 agricllltu-
raj associations. Wurtemburg still small
er in area, has sixteen colleges and sew
enty-six associations. Baden, with a
population of only a million, has four
teen agricultural colleges, besides four
schools of gardening and forestry. Sax
ony, with its dense population Of two
million, compacted into a space hardly
larger than two American counties, has
four higher, and twenty agricultural
schools. besides a veterinary college and
@ department. of agriculture with TWEEN
ty professors at the University Of Leip-
sic. SAKE Weimer, with a population
OF no more than 100000 souls has
three agricultural colleges, besides an
agricultural department. with fifteen
professorships at the University Of
Jera.
In connection with this it is stated
that the average crop per acre in Ger
many is steadily growing more. The
contrast between this country and Ger
many in the matter Of facilities for ag-
riculsiral education is marked, and not
at all fattering to our pride. May not
the fact that the average yield per acre
Of our staple crops diminish year by
year be partially attributable to the lack
OF knowledge Of their business on the
part of SO many Of our farmers.
ADoCToR's METHOD.
It has been the practice of a Hartford
physician, who has raised quite fam
lily of children and never lost one, to
restrict their diet, all through the wears
of early childhood to one dish. Until
they reach the age Of four years they
are kept exclusively on bread and milk.
OF thatWholcsome and substantial nour-
ishment they have enough and only
enough. They have not been permitted
to eat, even of bread and milk, too
heartily.
This method may prove to be, on ex-
animation, an excellent one. It is
known that milk, the main part of the
dish, supplies, more than almost any
other food, the clements needed for
healthy growth. Bread, ifWell made,
should be another staple article for aid
ing the growth of blood, brain, bone
and muscle. Doubtless it would still
better answer that purpose lift were
made of unbolted flour, like "Graham
bread, which contains some of the
sweet and nutritious Cor at least bcne-
fciaD properties Of the wheat that in
the superfine modern milling processes
are lost, though the -four IS finer and
whittier. But, with average good bread,
this experiment seems to,have spanned
on" well, in the case of this considera-
BILE family Of children.
GENERAL NOTES.
A good cement to close the cracks in
stoves is made by mixing wood ashes
and salt.
Bathing the eyes when tired or weak
in warm salt water will soothe and
strengthen them.
The damage done by the late floods
to the cotton crop of Georgia is said to
be very extensive.
& It is reported that the peach crop on
the Eastern shore Of Lake Michigan is
immense, and Of the choicest quality.
Silver should be washed with 8 cham
DIS skin saturated with silver soap each
time after use, thus avoiding a general
cleaning.
It is calculated that California will
have this year 30,00O,OOO bushels Of
wheat for export, including the supply
from the old crop. The California fruit
pack of 1887 promises to be one of the
finest in the history of the industry.
The crop Of rye in the United States
East OF the Rocky Mountains is said to
be the lightest in quantity Of any in
the last ten years, and the price in
Chicago is also the lowest of any time
within the decade. The rye crop Of the
Pacific slope is also reported to be al
most failure,
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